Reginald Adolphus Gammon
Born(1921-03-31)March 31, 1921
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedNovember 4, 2005(2005-11-04) (aged 84)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainter, educator
Websitereggiegammon.com

Reginald Gammon (1921-2005) was an American artist and member of the African American artist's collective, Spiral.

Biography

Gammon was born on March 31, 1921, in Philadelphia. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.[1] Gammon served in the United States Navy during World War II stationed in Guam from 1944 through 1946.[2]

After the war Gammon located to New York City.[3] In 1963 joined Spiral, a collective of Black artists interested in incorporating the concerns of the civil rights movement into their art.[4] The group met at the artist Romare Bearden's studio and the name Spiral was suggested by Hale Woodruff. Gammon's black and white painting "Freedom Now",[5] based on a Moneta Sleet Jr. photograph of the 1963 March on Washington, was exhibited at the 1965 Spiral exhibition "First Group Showing: Works in Black and White".[6]

After Spiral dissolved in 1966[3] Gammon joined the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) a group of artists that picketed the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum to protest the exclusion of black artists.[2]

In 1970 Gammon left (BECC) and New York City to take a teaching job at Western Michigan University where he stayed until he retired in 1991 as professor emeritus [3][7] Gammon then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he became a member of the "New Mexico Afro-American Artist Guild" and the New Grounds Print Workshop.[7]

In 1975 Gammon was the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship.[8]

Gammon died on November 4, 2005, in Albuquerque.[2]

Gammon' work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[9] His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art,[10] the Columbus Museum of Art,[11] the Woodmere Art Museum,[4] and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[12] His papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Reginald A. Gammon: Intellectual Artist of the Civil Rights Struggles of the 1960s". Black Then. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Biographical Note | A Finding Aid to the Reginald Gammon papers, 1927-2007, bulk 1960-2005 bulk 1960-2005". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Robinson, Shantay. "Reginald Gammon: An Artist for the People". Black Art in America. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Gammon, Reginald". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Reginald Gammon, Freedom Now, acrylic on board, 1963". Marching, in PROTEST, The Making of African American Identity: Vol. III, 1917-1968, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library. National Humanities Center. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  6. ↑ Patton, Sharon F. (1998). African-American art. Oxford. pp. 185–187. ISBN 0192842137.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. 1 2 "Reginald Gammon". Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Reginald Gammon - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  9. ↑ "We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  10. ↑ "Painting - Mothers [Scottsboro Mothers]". Columbus Museum. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "Reginald Gammon, "Lynch Mob" (1937)". Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
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